Leon Russell Quotes
Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
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I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.
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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.
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What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards?
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.
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I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps in Nutty Professor II, I said, 'I'm going to try my hand at a female character.' It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you
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As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.
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I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.
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Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
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I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
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Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.
